This book documents the rise of freelancing and digital professions and argues about the central role held by reputation within this context, offering a comprehensive interpretation of the digital transformation of knowledge work. The book shows how digital technologies are not simply...

Exploring the new professional scenes in digital and freelance knowledge, this innovative book provides an account of the subjects and cultures that pertain to knowledge work in the aftermath of the creative class frenzy. Including a broad spectrum of empirical projects, The Reputation Economy...

This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its labor productivity effects with a representative sample of Finnish businesses. Depending on the IT task in question, on average from one-third to two-thirds of IT has been...

Im multimedialen Zeitalter ist der Arbeitsalltag zunehmend durch Bildschirmarbeit gepr?gt. Branchen?bergreifend w?chst die Zahl der Arbeitspl?tze an Bildschirmger?ten und die Dauer der Bildschirmt?tigkeit. Dabei werden die Informationsaufnahme auf das visuelle System geb?ndelt und gleichzeitig...

"The paper examines the relationship between the diffusion of information and communication technology (ICT) and the skill structure of the employees. The data basis comes from a survey conducted among 4150 German firms in the year 2000. The penetration of ICT is measured with the aid of: (i)...

"The paper examines the relationship between the diffusion of information and communication technology (ICT) and the skill structure of the employees. The data basis comes from a survey conducted among 4150 German firms in the year 2000. The penetration of ICT is measured with the aid of: (i)...

"The blind and those with serious visual handicaps are one of the groups of disabled whose integration into the labour market is generally only possible if special assistance is provided for the initial integration and later on for safeguarding the employment relationship. These tasks are taken...

"The blind and those with serious visual handicaps are one of the groups of disabled whose integration into the labour market is generally only possible if special assistance is provided for the initial integration and later on for safeguarding the employment relationship. These tasks are taken...

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier beschäftigt sicht mit ergonomischer Gestaltung visueller Wahrnehmungsbedingungen. Untersucht werden soll in wie weit unterschiedliche Strukturen auf die Wahrnehmungsleistung, die Akzeptanz und andere subjektive Reaktionen sowie das Blickverhalten wirken und welche...